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American prometheus - the triumph and tragedy of robert oppenheimer
Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
- Atlantic Books
- 15 Janvier 2009
- 9781843547051
Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb, was the most famous scientist of his generation. This biography reveals a brilliant man, profoundly involved with some of the momentous events of the twentieth century.